In the context of the three-fifths compromise, the delegates from the northern states:
A. did not want slaves to be counted as part of the population.
B. wanted a legislature with two separate chambers.
C. did not want southern states to have any representation in the upper house.
D. wanted each state to have only one vote.
E. did not want to trade with the southern states.
Answer: A
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